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  1. Long Pole in the Tent: Celliac Disease on Bio-Engineered Rice Uses Human Genes · · Score: 5, Interesting

    1:133 people in the US have Celliac Disease - inability of the gut to absorb nutrient. #1 symptom = Diarhea. Diarhea wipes out the villi in the intestines, which is your body's system for up-taking nutrients from foods as they pass through the gut. No villi - no nutrients:: You Die.

    I've seen no study to verify mammary colostrum and human tears have any propolactic effect on villi, but paired with rice its a good starter. Celliac Disease causes the body's immune system to adversely react to a protein found in wheat products - gluten. Celliac's are able eat rice without the toxic effects of other grains.

    There is no cure, no treatment, no therapy for Celliac Disease. The only thing that can be done is remove gluten from the diet. The damage to the villi can be reversed in most cases and health maintained with a disciplined gluten-free diet for Life.

    The GM rice/human DNA engineered grain could only reverse the death rate in developing countries if the GM DNA provide an immunity. The villi are delicate structures which regenerate all the time in health people. They are wiped out when anyone gets diarhea. That's what diarhea is, loss of villi, medically.

    If the GM rice passes immunity to the villi, they have a treatment for every 1:133 American's living with the disease. Not bad market.

  2. Gov't has more access to my phone than you on Telecoms Facing $50 Billion Lawsuit for Wiretaps · · Score: 1

    Verizon just informed me that without court order they cannot release *_any_* phone number detail to subscribers until it is printed in your monthly billing information.

    I can't believe I need a court order to find out the phone number that called last night my cell phone? Its standard account detail included with your bill!

  3. Another product solution on Pepper Pad, an Open Alternative to MS Origami · · Score: 2, Insightful

    waiting for the right problem to solve.

    This is what happens when engineers get to spec what they like, without requirements.

  4. Plastic case, backlit keys, 2xFW on MacBook Announcement Expected on Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Intel dual core? They'll sell tons...

    It'll be the new "Standard" by which all laptops are measured.

    Bye, bye 12"PowerBooks!

  5. SUBLIMINAL communications on One Second Ads Hoping To Grab Your Eyes · · Score: 1

    in the form of advertising is regulated by law. GE advertising approaches subliminal advertising through unconscious messaging as its medium encroaches upon the limits of human awareness inability to detect changes within broadcast frame rates.

    Marshall McLuhan's "the medium is the message" taught us the connection between presentation and content back in the 50's. Subliminal messaging circumvents Reason? What does bypassing Reason accomplish?

    Studies have proven that subliminal is ineffective without the reinforcement device of repetition.

  6. Re:Server-side storage==MusicBank on Apple Sets Tune for Pricing of Song Downloads · · Score: 1

    This wish for accounting is ahead of the market. Apple becomes the banker when it holds your account, facilitates musicplace transactions and "gets you involved in music" as a service.

    Good nose for the future...

  7. Price = value or currency on Apple Sets Tune for Pricing of Song Downloads · · Score: 1

    The distinction between the commodity (music) and value (price) or (currency). The two attributes of money = store of value and store of currency. iTunes has created a "money" where iTune is a store of value (fixed) and a store of currency (limited). In order to create a Music economy money (itunes) must be allowed to float freely in the marketplace.

    Jobs is holding out on the big labels to lift their "limits" on itune's currency (currently 5) before he allows the value of itunes music to float free. Until then Jobs will keep it fixed.

    Apple will be a MusicBank taking a fee in the transaction as an honest broker facilitating the exchange of music.

  8. ZFS: Finder == Horse: Jockey on Apple Looking at ZFS For Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Apple is merely picking their horse before they mount their jockey. ZFS is transaction oriented which tells us something about the future. Apple is in the transaction business (iTMS, .MAC, AppleStore, etc...). Expect one hell of a shopping, business centric user experience if they bolt ZFS onto OS X and a killer new user interface to replace Finder.app.

    Apple the corporation could "own" the layer above transactions taking a micro percentage in rent/toll for making the experience profitable (ala iTunes).

  9. If it ain't broken: on Shuttle To Fly Without Safety Revisions · · Score: -1, Troll

    Don't fix it.

    Anyone else?
    Notice US Congress isn't functioning?
    Pentagon isn't working properly?
    NASA is one-off'g provent killer technology?

  10. Garbage IN-Garbage OUT on The Continuing American Decline in CS · · Score: 2

    Look no further than the book pubishing Industry. The way that mathematics is taught in America is a product of a system based upon publishing. The resultant fragmentation, complexity and discontinuity of the material for the sake of satisfying bureaucratic guidelines and upping page counts negatively affects outcomes. Mathematics is the largest and heaviest book in the backpack. Its rediculous.

  11. Optimize Audio on Start-up Could Kick Opteron into Overdrive · · Score: 2, Interesting

    New polyphonic software instruments rely on CPU cycles. More cycles sound not only better but much different. Musicians are at a tipping point at this moment in time. Old fashioned instruments which are standards on stage and tour are becoming brittle and expensive. Collectors are snapping up the old instruments at prices north of $5K USD reducing the availability of instruments for playing professionals. The Hammond B3's are going as high as $16K. Selmer Mk6 saxes $6K.

    Software instruments are a necessity going forward. Its imperative to find a scalable system that is state-less and transparent to the performance.

  12. Re:12" PowerBook G4 remains... on Apple Announced 17" MacBook Pro · · Score: 0

    There are no reasons to sell a MacBook 12". Success at 12" is first and foremost defined by the physical package 12"/5#. The 12" Powerbooks "just work" which is Apple's mission. Jobs would never change something that works fantastically well for people.

    Apple's success with its 12" form-factor are a reflection of its requirements and specifications. Success at 12" doesn't require dual technologies, high technologies nor patented technologies.

    There are improvements Apple could make to the 12" Powerbook but none are reflected in the new Intel generation MacBooks. In order of priority, specification change candidates are:
    1 Plastic Case (ala iBook) brushed Alum for screen only
    2 Metal Base (ala iBook) lose Powerbook Alum frame design it is too weak for roadwork
    3 Redesign Slot-load to prevent deformation
    4 Asymetrical FW pin design inside Firewire port
    5 Backlit keys
    6 Dual independent FW ports (!redundant) bye-bye modem
    7 New patented Audio port bye-bye analog audio ports (too weak for roadwork)

  13. Help measuring RF levels on Swedish Study Finds Cell Phone Cancer Risk · · Score: 1

    Any scientists able to provide information, procedures and equipment necessary to measure high energy RF? This is gov't low freq RF within 100 ft. of source?

    thanks in advance...
    -r
    rr6013@gmail.com

  14. Duel Boot Process on Apple's Fruitful Future · · Score: 1

    on MacInTels will run Windows alonside Mac without partitioning or switching... it just works! Steve Jobs would accept only a duel on the desktop, and let the people decide. Its pure Jobs!

  15. Olde News Holo Storage on Holographic Storage Crams in 0.5TB Per Square Inch · · Score: 1

    NCR utilized Holo stor memory in its POS cashier machines as non-volatile protected memory for catastrophic events. It protected the loss of transaction record in the event of power loss and provided the ability to pickup transactions right where they left off when power was restored. This in the 1980's as delivering product, precedes the boys making a commodity drive mechanism by decades.

  16. HyperHype bull on The New Wisdom of the Web · · Score: 0

    There isn't a business plan behind Flickr, myspace, etc... that even comes close to Microsoft. CEO Google is full of himself if he thinks he can bolt one onto these nice ideas.

    Craigslist is the only upstart that has leveraged Serendipity into a business plan AND provide a valuable service.

  17. Fleishman has balls on Fleischmann to Work on Commercial Fusion Heater · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fleishman is delivering the science which everybody rejected until they no longer could ignore their discovery. This guy has balls. Willing to apply the science while the Doubting Thomas's snicker and lift a finger to type diatribes at him.

  18. QoS future != CD on Is the Physical CD Still A Viable Market? · · Score: 1

    CD is both brittle and depreciating solution because the media is undergoing a time sensitive decaying process and the laser heads have a limited life expectancy rendering the content useless.

    Hi-end audio CD players occupy the $20K territory with a 10 year life expectancy. Do the math. How much should it cost to have hi fidelity music? CD is an EOL (end of life) technology waiting to be surpased by non-deteriorating, Open source protocol, future-proof solution.

    My vote is for Apple to loft MP7 for true hi fidelity, publish an open interface to the standard and rollout HiFi Stereo systems centered around an MP7 server for HiFIeverywhere, anywhere around the house.

  19. Re:Interesting experiment on France To Force iTunes to Open to Other Players? · · Score: 1

    Mod this UP. Clean reasoned assessment, right on the facts.

  20. Substance on What Would Be Your Ideal Futuristic Home? · · Score: 1

    More than anything American's have achieved everything but substance in their lives. Building homes that reward them with substance, value and meaning drives the market in the upper end. Home theater is just riding the coat tails of this substance trend until it too is thrown off.

    My futuristic house harks back to the days when building was done with stone masons and huge timber beams. Homes in Europe, France, Italy, Spain continue to service their occupants hundreds of years beyond constuction.

    Medical science has made us outlast our electronics, automobiles, 2x4 stick houses, even the 30 year roof. I like clay tiles which don't require reroofing. Who'd a thought sewer pipe cut in half used as roof tiles would ever catch-on?

    All the lights in my house could easily run by solar battery system. For christ's sake solar powered battery chargers can light your walkway in your garden, why not your house? Bye, bye grid. Battery + Solar charging is doable.

  21. Re:They screwed the pooch on the hi-fi on Mac Mini and iPod Hi-Fi Over-Hyped? · · Score: 1

    Apple's choice in using the term of art "HiFi" is the only thing worthy of critique. Apple will come to regret sitting so lowly on an Industry reference reserved for larger sound systems.

    What's there in Apple's box is a speaker array that mimics iTunes in-ear soundscape rather weakly in ambient environments. The takeaway from this release is that Apple is taking the "Stereo" space, non-in-ear, seriously learning the limitations of their product.

    We could enjoy music someday without paying $30K for a HiFi system. That's a good thing for us, Apple and the Music Industry. Atta Boy Apple. Defend and Extend!

  22. Job's two trick pony on Is Apple Looking to Buy Disney? · · Score: 1


    The trick is to abstract the model, sell the franchise and collect fee in the management of the product. Job's could do that...

    Unless Jobs productized, commoditized Disney (ala Pixar) there will be no incentive for Apple to burden itself with a labor intensive Hospitality business of today's Disney.

    Take the Hospitality franchise away and Disney could transition Online to gateway to RealWorld hospitality destinations. Jobs could do that trick for Disney. Disney theme parks would be dinosaurs of an analog time.

  23. Innovate? MS? on Woz On Apple's Success · · Score: -1, Troll

    MS innovates on 2nd or 3rd generation technologies. It doesn't generate new technologies or advance the art by risking a 1st generation bet.

    Apple innovates on technology gaps filling the need for 1st generation solutions to problems defined as weak bridges to the consumer. There is no culture at MS for forging those technological innovations that bridge the divide between markets.

    Apple sees itself as a marketer, merchant and abstracts those bridges into interfaces that enable Apple to own the layer above the technology charging a gateway fee onto the marketplace floor.

    MS is not motivated to serve the needs of anybody but their own self-interest in maintaining the Windows dominance on the desktop. Apple has no such arbitrary restriction on service to the customer. Apple will meet the customer where needed most.

  24. Re:Fastest damn browser on the Mac on Mozilla Camino 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Camino ver. 1.0b+1 running 3 mos., is what Safari promised but never delivered. Camino is fast, stable, predictable and productive software. I've stopped using OmniWeb and IE. I've found no use for Safari, Opera or Firefox.

  25. Cartoon: BIG bite requires new logo on Newest Patent Threat to MPEG-4 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Apple (AAPL) logo has one bite. ATT MPEG-4 license would take a second bite. Steve Jobs will abstract technology layers than pay royalty and redesign his logo.
    Apple's Quartz avoids Adobe's Postscript license fee. iPod music is about to be fully abstracted. ATT will be left to sell MPEG-4 versions of pop music on their own damn network if they want a royalty cut. Jobs isn't going to let their fee ride over his iTunes service for free. Fees work both ways...SBC